I’m not going to die slipping on no ice.
FRED HAMPTONEverything would be alright if everything was put back in the hands of the people, and we’re going to have to put it back in the hands of the people.
More Fred Hampton Quotes
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We said nobody would shoot a Panther but a pig, because Panthers don’t pose a threat to anybody but pigs.
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In plain proletarian worker’s language, it takes two to tango.
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Why don’t you live for the people? Why don’t you struggle for the people? Why don’t you die for the people?
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The people have to have the power: it belongs to the people.
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The people that we’re asking for peace, they’re a bunch of megalomaniac warmongers and they don’t even understand what peace means.
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You have to understand that people have to pay a price for peace. If you dare to struggle, you dare to win.
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Black people need some peace, white people need some peace, and we’re gonna have to fight, we’re gonna have to struggle, we’re gonna have to struggle relentlessly to bring about some peace.
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We say it’s no longer a question of violence or non-violence. We say it’s a question of resistance to fascism or non-existence within fascism.
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I went down to the prison in Menard, thinking we were the vanguard, but down there, I got down on my knees and listened and learned from the people.
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People have to be armed to have power, you see.
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They talked us into buying candy bars and throwing the candy away and eating the wrapper.
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You can’t build a revolution with no education.
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With no education, you have neocolonialism instead of colonialism.
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If you walk through life and don’t help anybody, you haven’t had much of a life
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You don’t miss the water ‘til the well runs dry.
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